USA: Clinton om Romney, Huntsman, Bachmann

WASHINGTON Bill Clinton tror att Barack Obama vinner 2012. Denne erfarne politiske bedömare som dök upp på Aspen Ideas-festivalen sa sedan så här om några av republikanerna:

– I’m always reluctant to say the strongest candidates, because I’m afraid I’ll kill ’em, and I don’t have the right to do that. But, y’know, I like the governors: I like Huntsman and Romney. Romney’s a MUCH better candidate than he was last time, because he’s not apologizing for signing the health-care bill. He’s got another creative way of saying we oughta repeal Obamacare, but that’s prob’ly the price of gettin’ the nomination. Huntsman hasn’t said what he’s for yet, but I just kinda like him. He LOOKS authentic – he looks like a real guy. I mean, a real human being. I like his family, I like his kind of iconoclastic way. And he was a pretty good governor. And he wasn’t a right-wing ideologue.

Att Clinton, exguvernören som blev president, gillar exguvernörerna Mitt Romney och Jon Huntsman är kanske ingen slump, men här är vad han sa om Michele Bachmann:

– Bachmann’s been a better candidate than I THOUGHT she’d be, and I don’t agree with her on nearly anything. But she’s got a very compelling personal story, and she gotta lot of juice, and she turns [on] a lot of those anti-government crowd.

Och, om nu ekonomin är Obamas svaga kort kommer här ett råd från mannen som kunde skryta med 20 miljoner nya jobb och överskott i budgeten:

– I think, first of all, he can talk about what he DID do. He took steps which avoided a depression. He saved the automobile industry, by not just bailing them out, but by requiring a serious restructuring. When he took office, we had 2 percent of the global market for the electric batteries that will power the next generation of all-electric cars and hybrid vehicles. And on Jan. 1 of this year, we had 20 percent of the global market.

Det senare var kanske en släng åt personer som anser att Obama besökt för många ”gröna” fabriker.